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Gilded by Marissa Meyer

19 reviews

bronzel's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Child death, Gore, and Blood

Moderate: Confinement, Cannibalism, and Animal death

Minor: Sexual content

caroline_peacock's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Murder, Death of parent, Blood, Body horror, Gore, Grief, Cannibalism, Pregnancy, and Violence

Moderate: Vomit, Abandonment, Animal cruelty, Suicide, and Child abuse

Minor: Sexual content

millyfox's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Pregnancy, Violence, Blood, and Child death

Moderate: Death, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Adult/minor relationship, Death of parent, Gore, Abandonment, Confinement, Animal death, Body horror, Blood, Grief, and Pregnancy

Minor: Cannibalism, Child abuse, and Sexual content

clairew97's review against another edition

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Murder, Gore, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Sexual content, Suicide attempt, Abortion, Animal cruelty, Bullying, Child death, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Body shaming, Violence, Torture, Cannibalism, Grief, Stalking, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Confinement, Abandonment, Animal death, Death, Blood, and Body horror

bookish_bookerz's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.25

This book was picked up for two reasons:
1. I am a huge fan of fairytale retellings
2. I am huge fan of Marissa Meyer 

To start this review, let me focus on the positive firsts and why I enjoyed this story so much. This Rumpelstiltskin retelling did have a dark spin on it while keeping some of the main details of the original, which I liked very much. I think Marissa Meyer did a fantastic job adding new elements to such a classic fairytale to create a new setting for it. Which in turns influence, my positive outlook of the characters in whom I enjoyed. I like going through the ups and downs with characters that I connected with emotionally.I did not find any of the characters flat and enjoyed how I can see the relationship of side characters with the main. Another thing I am fond of this story was the character development of the main character. Even though it was not a significant growth, I appreciated seeing the female main character growth in courage through the novel. I am also very fond of the stories told by our main character. I found it absolutely exciting that there were stories inside of a story. To me that added a nice touch and a glimpse into what our character was known for while sharing things about the plot without making it boring or overly informational. Lastly, I liked how the plot did focus on its main objective instead of deviating into a different direction. I though there was a good blend between world building, character driven, and plot. It was just enough to keep me engaged.  Now to focus on the negatives. While reading there were some times I found myself a little uninterested  due to some of the world building or descriptions. It was not overly heavy but, I found myself a little bored and would skim over the description parts when I wanted to get to the action. In addition, I disliked how our main character acted at certain times. Some of her action made me confused or asking why would she do that. She was infuriating at times, but nonetheless I stilled enjoyed her. Overall, I was satisfied with my read and enjoyed it enough to read the second book. I cannot wait to continue this story. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Blood, Death of parent, and Child death

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Kidnapping, and Pregnancy

Minor: Abortion, Cannibalism, and Sexual content

annasneddon's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cannibalism, Blood, Violence, Murder, and Child death

uranaishi's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Death of parent

Moderate: Child death, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Animal cruelty, Blood, Cannibalism, Self harm, Kidnapping, Suicide attempt, Abandonment, Toxic relationship, Child abuse, Confinement, Sexual content, and Suicide

Minor: Alcohol, Animal death, Infidelity, and Pregnancy

laneys_library's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Child death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Suicide, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Death, Death of parent, and Murder

Moderate: Violence

Minor: Kidnapping, Cannibalism, Medical trauma, Pregnancy, Vomit, and Abortion

ambaright's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.25

This book truly is a Rumpelstiltskin retelling, with all of the turning straw into gold gimics. As always, Marissa Meyer puts a great twist to the original fairy tales, this time with the chemistry between Gild, the castle poltergeist, and Serilda, the protagonist. Along with the villainous Erlking, the book is full of the dark and twisted stories found in the original Grimm fairy tale. 

While the book was readable, and left on a great page turner for the sequel, it was very drawn out to be 500 pages. There was a lot of fluff in the book, while medium to fast paced, that was unnecessary. I also can’t imagine how this is still ya due to how gruesome some of the descriptions are. That being said, I’m still looking forward to reading the next book in the future, maybe. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Gore, and Death

Moderate: Abandonment, Confinement, and Child death

Minor: Cannibalism

kbairbooks's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

It’s tricky because I believe Marissa Meyer is a master at her craft. This was genius storytelling, in my opinion, but I also don’t like scary things and I would classify this book as horror. Sooo I’m amazed by the storytelling and horrified by the contents.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Torture, Pregnancy, Slavery, Suicide attempt, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Cannibalism, Murder, Suicide, Violence, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Abortion